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"In an entertaining and tender memoir, the 90-year-old author remembers his fully lived life, from growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland that now exist only in memory, to serving in the China/Burma/India theater during World War II as a member of an elite U.S. Navy Commando unit,"--NoveList

"In an entertaining and tender memoir, the 90-year-old author remembers his fully lived life, from growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland that now exist only in memory, to serving in the China/Burma/India theater during World War II as a member of an elite U.S. Navy Commando unit,"--NoveList

Part One. Youth -- Sailing Against the Tide -- Depression Brooklyn -- The Shadow of War -- All Will Be Well -- I'm in the Navy Now -- Part Two. War -- Preparing for War -- Shipping Out -- Lost Horizon -- Jade Dragon Snow Mountain -- The Rivers of Paradise -- The Ungovernable Sea -- Part Three. Memory -- Waves Washing the Sand

Part One. Youth -- Sailing Against the Tide -- Depression Brooklyn -- The Shadow of War -- All Will Be Well -- I'm in the Navy Now -- Part Two. War -- Preparing for War -- Shipping Out -- Lost Horizon -- Jade Dragon Snow Mountain -- The Rivers of Paradise -- The Ungovernable Sea -- Part Three. Memory -- Waves Washing the Sand